Association of Supported Employment With Cognitive Functioning and Employment Outcomes.

Objective: Cognitive functioning affects employment outcomes in supported employment. This study examined which cognitive parameters are associated with employment outcomes for persons with mental illnesses and discusses possible mechanisms involved.

Methods: Data stem from a randomized controlled trial conducted as part of the Zürich Impulse Program for the Sustainable Development of Mental Health Services (ZInEP).

Work-related discrimination and change in self-stigma among people with mental illness during supported employment.

Objective: The relationship of work-related discrimination to the change in self-stigma and stigma stress was assessed among supported employment participants in Switzerland.

Methods: Self-stigma and the cognitive appraisal of mental illness stigma as a stressor were measured at baseline among supported employment participants (N=116). These variables and work-related discrimination in the past year were assessed one year later (N=96).

'Placement budgets' for supported employment--improving competitive employment for people with mental illness: study protocol of a multicentre randomized controlled trial.

Background: Vocational integration of people with mental illness is poor despite their willingness to work. The 'Individual Placement and Support' (IPS) model which emphasises rapid and direct job placement and continuing support to patient and employer has proven to be the most effective vocational intervention programme. Various studies have shown that every second patient with severe mental illness was able to find competitive employment within 18 months.